I think the date is wrong or it is a hoax. I was born in 1945, married in 1966 and never heard anything like this. Even my farmwife grandmothers never dressed like the picture either. Well, I was in the US, but still, we always thought that in the UK things were even a little bit more free and looking forward than we were.

I am pre-feminism, but I know my mother and women like her set the stage for it. And I lived it with no big deal.

I think it's a hoax. I find it difficult to believe that a 1960s school textbook would include the instruction that "a man's satisfaction is more important than a woman's."

These are the types of things that we imagine other women might have said to each other (or possibly grandma advising granddaughter), but it's highly implausible that tips for being sexually submissive were actually taught in school.

I don't think this is real. For one, I agree with Cathy that I very much doubt anything like this was ever stated in such an official capacity, especially not in print. Some older female relative may have shared sentiments similar to these with a young woman upon her marriage, but I wouldn't expect anyone to be told anything even close to this explicit in any other context.

For another, the woman in the picture looks as though she is wearing clothing from, at the latest, the 1930s. Maybe the 1940s. Even for someone living in a very rural area, people wouldn't have dressed like that in the 1960s. On top of that, the quality of the picture really is not very good, and by the 1960s (or even the 1950s), the quality of black and white photography was far better than that.

The other thing that strikes me is that the text is just superimposed on a picture of crumpled paper. You can do that in Photoshop, and whoever did this one didn't even do a very good job.

Finally, this is not an "extract" -- it's an excerpt. And if it were legitimate, the title and the author of the book it was from would be listed somewhere on the internet. Google the first sentence in that, and what you get is a bunch of hits to blogs and message boards all posting the same thing...without naming any sort of source beyond "a home economics textbook" or "a sex education textbook"